Current Version: draft, 2024-05-22Z
Editors: K. V. Ramesh and S. S. Ramchandra Murthy.
DHARMA Identifier: INSTelugu00003
Hand Description:
Alternative identifier:
Origin: Written in 849-891.
Classification: donative
Languages: Telugu
Corresponding Artefact: ARTTelugu000003 inscription on On a stone set up inside the compound of the Śiva temple at Balapanūru
Layout: 24159 lines are observed/preserved on the artifact.
1svasti śrī[]
2davaḷeyarāju[]
3n iccina pannasa[]
4ṇa-kam¡ā!⟨a⟩¡ḷ!⟨l⟩a śrī(ya)[]
5ṇtha bāḷeyambu[]
6[]ḷaga veṇṇapa[]
7[]carikamayya
8[]rājamānambu nūṟu
9[]ṟutul nela yiccina
10[]paraṣṭudiyuṁ sū
11[]tiyu maṇiya
12[]ccunu innā
13[]ḍacina kāṁpuḷci
14[]dēyambu reṇḍu vuṣṭi
15[]koṁbidi vuṭlu golgu
14 vuṣṭi • The editors note that this word should be read as vuṭṭi.
The inscription contains at its top the depiction of an animal that may be a boar or a bull. It is stated in RRM that the slab has been broken irregularly as a result of which the first five lines have lost a number of letters along the right margin and lines 7-15 have lost a few letters along the left margin1971-1972, page 157. Hence, the number of dots in the edition is not indicative of any definite number of akṣaras and have not been reproduced here.